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Installed cygwin including gcc, make, etc
Obtained ROOT source from their CVS repository using the branch tag v5.14.00d http://root.00-patchescern.ch/twiki/bin/view/ROOT/PatchesV5-14-00
Downloaded Python 2.5 for windows
We decided to upgrade to Python 2.5 at this point in the Core Meeting from March 13, 2007
We double-checked ROOT's abilty to handle this version of Python and were pleased to find this ROOT forum discussion:
http://root.cern.ch/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=4359
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make
make cintdlls (which seems to do nothing)
make map
make install